Word: discomfort
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...always will occur in the same way, a laid-back, almost pensive introduction to the epic of regular season that follows, that annually hoists the pastime onto its pedestal. As columnist Art Spander once philosophized, "It remains that time when athlete and spectator both dream, when the dreariness and discomfort of winter at last are slipping away, when baseball once more is the game we knew as kids...
...changing the name, within the context of the current agreement between the University and the Foundation, the negative consequences would be minimized. The short-lived embarrassment the Foundation and the School may face in the course of changing the name would save them both the even greater long-term discomfort surrounding the permanently-named Engelhard Library subjected to persistent public ridicule...
...with interstitial nephritis (a major form of kidney disease) had histories of excessive long-term analgesic use. Most were women 35 or older who took analgesics for recurrent headaches or backaches. Concludes Murray: "Pain relievers work. But people who take too many may only be relieving one kind of discomfort to cause another...
Fate dealt Harvard a cruel hand. It allowed Larry Brown, ignoring the pain of an injured shoulder and the discomfort of a protective harness, to lead an incomplete comeback that had alumni dancing with delusions of another miraculous tie, a 35-all spectacle that would have been just too perfect an end to the tenth anniversary of the 1968 deadlock...
Double-fink or no, the boycott is yet another issue that the University will decide while being watched closely by student protesters. The symptoms of administrative discomfort are already apparent...